Ancient landscapes of western North America : a geologic history with paleogeographic maps / Ronald C. Blakey, Wayne D. Ranney.
Blakey, Ronald C., 1945- author.; Ranney, Wayne, author.
2018
QE626
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Title Ancient landscapes of western North America : a geologic history with paleogeographic maps / Ronald C. Blakey, Wayne D. Ranney.
Author Blakey, Ronald C., 1945- author.
ISBN 9783319596365 (electronic book)
3319596365 (electronic book)
9783319596341
3319596349
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59636-5
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : color illustrations, color maps
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-59636-5 doi
Call Number QE626
Dewey Decimal Classification 557
Summary Allow yourself to be taken back into deep geologic time when strange creatures roamed the Earth and Western North America looked completely unlike the modern landscape. Volcanic islands stretched from Mexico to Alaska, most of the Pacific Rim didn't exist yet, at least not as widespread dry land; terranes drifted from across the Pacific to dock on Western Americas' shores creating mountains and more volcanic activity. Landscapes were transposed north or south by thousands of kilometers along huge fault systems. Follow these events through paleogeographic maps that look like satellite views of ancient Earth. Accompanying text takes the reader into the science behind these maps and the geologic history that they portray. The maps and text unfold the complex geologic history of the region as never seen before.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Digital File Characteristics text file PDF
Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed October 17, 2017).
Added Author Ranney, Wayne, author.
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Geologic setting of the Cordillera: Introduction to terranes
Overview of modern landscapes and geology, Western North America
Proterozoic
origin of continental crust and passive margin history
Passive margins and broad seaways
Early Pz (Camb-Dev)
First accretion
Antler orogeny (Dev-Miss)
Unstable margin
Marginal Island Arcs and terrane juxtaposition (Miss-Penn)
Second Accretion
Sonoman orogeny (Perm-Tr)
Cordilleran Arc
Sevier orogeny
volcanoes, batholiths, and more terranes (J-K)
Shallow subduction and arc disruption (Paleogene)
Transform margin and crustal extension (Neogene)
Canyons and glaciers
shaping the modern landscape (Pleistocene to Recent)
Special places
where to see the landscapes
Use of Plaeogeographic maps
New North American series (whole or cropped to area covered)
broad areas and broad events
to provide broad geologic setting
Colorado Plateau-SW North America series
regional detail and events of N Mexico, California, Nevada, Western Arizona, Western Utah, Oregon, Idaho
Global series
broad geologic setting of Western North America through geologic time.

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